Play the Planet of the Apes game that time forgot after watching the new movie

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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes hits theaters this weekend. If you were hoping to find ways to spend more time in that world through video games, your options are surprisingly slim. Your only easy option is Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier. This is a game I’ve seen almost no one talk about since it was released, but it’s a fascinating title that warrants a revisit.

Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier is set in the universe of this rebooted Planet of the Apes saga and is essentially a playable movie where players make choices to affect the narrative. It was even made by The Imaginarium, a production company founded by motion capture master Andy Serkis. Released for PS4 in 2017 before coming to PC and Xbox in 2018, Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier barely mustered much attention at and after its release.

It got mixed reviews, had an incredibly low concurrent player count on Steam, and requires some workarounds to get up and running if you aren’t playing on a console nowadays. Although Last Frontier is only seven years old at this point, it feels like the Planet of the Apes video game that time forgot. That’s a shame because Last Frontier is actually much better than its middling reviews

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Fear itself

Last Frontier tells a standalone story that takes place in the midst of the war between Apes and humans in the wake of Caesar’s uprising and the spread of the Simian Flu. It follows two central characters, an ape named Bryn and a human named Jess. Bryn is part of a tribe of apes that broke off from Caesar and found refuge in a mountain; unfortunately, their food supply is starting to run very low. Meanwhile, Jess is trying to assert herself as the leader of a small community of humans after her husband’s passing.

While Bryn and Jess’ journeys start separate, they eventually collide as Bryn’s tribe gets more desperate and starts to search for food in human territory. On the other side, ape hunters roll up to